Microsoft rigging votes in online poll

See the below website about an online poll asking people to vote between Java and MS’s .Net applications. here’s a quote from the article:

ZDNet UK logs reveal rather obvious vote rigging, and prove that
it originated from within Microsoft:

A very high percentage of voters are from within the
microsoft.com domain.

There is a very high incidence of people attempting to cast multiple
votes, even though the poll script blocked out most attempts
at multiple voting. The one that wins the prize made 228 attempts
to vote. This person was from within the microsoft.com domain.

Several of the voters evidently followed a link contained in an email, the subject line of which ran: “PLEASE STOP AND VOTE FOR .NET!” We know this, because our logs include the Web address where visitors browsed from; when people click there from a Microsoft Exchange email message, Exchange helpfully gives us the subject line and username. The people who followed that link all had email addresses in the microsoft.com domain.

This is why, whenever I get a web link or email pointing to an online poll, I copy the address and paste it in a new browser window.